Keyword: «michel de montaigne»

The paper is devoted to one of the actual forms of education in modern technical гniversity – essay: the peculiarities of the essay as a qualifying written work on University course «Philosophy» are described in the paper by referring to the history of the essay as a genre (Michel de Montaigne, «Experience»). Awareness of specific genre features of essay allows students to perform this type of work better, replacing it by neither composition, nor the abstract of the study. Special attention is paid to the problems of «theming» and «purity of form» of an essay.